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Aru Shiney-Ajay: To Confront Trump and the Climate Crisis, Democrats Must Stand Up for Working People

Taking on corporate power and putting workers at the center of the party’s agenda is the best defense against the divide-and-conquer strategy of the populist right. That means backing policies … Continue reading

December 12, 2024 · 3 Comments

Abby Zimet: Ceasefire Delegates Insist Palestinian Children Can’t Eat Words

‘Never again’ means ‘never again, for anyone, anywhere, ever.’

August 22, 2024 · 8 Comments

Brett Wilkins: US Voter Registrations Surge as Republicans Try to Limit Ballot Access

One group said it has registered over 100,000 new voters since U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. 

July 29, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds

Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.

July 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Rachel Hadas: ‘The immortal Gods alone have neither age nor death’: Wisdom from Greek tragedies for Joe Biden

It’s useful to think about the potential strengths, as well as the vulnerabilities, of age.

July 11, 2024 · 7 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of Our Democracy

The rapid pace of Gaza’s descent into famine is remarkable among conflicts.

July 9, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Biden=Genocide

It is a cruel irony to drop food when at the same time the U.S. is funding the dropping of bombs.

March 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

Richard Krawiec: Looking at Gaza

In the Israeli siege of Gaza there are so many photos and videos of horror it’s difficult to keep track of them. Every day we see more and more atrocities on social media. We are overloaded with evidence of innocents being killed, maimed; neighborhoods left in rubble.

March 5, 2024 · 11 Comments

Brett Wilkins: As Hawks Urge Biden to Bomb Iran, Barbara Lee Says Reject Push for Wider War

“The path forward to peace and security throughout the region is dependent on a cessation of hostilities in Gaza.”

February 1, 2024 · 4 Comments

Olivia Rosane: 68% of US Public Wants Gaza Cease-Fire: Poll

The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that support for Israel had dropped by nearly 10 percentage points since the last edition on October 12 and 13.

November 16, 2023 · 2 Comments

Video: Joe Biden and Elizabeth Alexander discuss “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

President-elect Joe Biden, poet Elizabeth Alexander, psychologist Angela Duckworth, and a chorus of working fathers and sons join Poetry in America host Elisa New to reflect on Robert Hayden’s sonnet “Those Winter Sundays.”

February 7, 2021 · 4 Comments

Paul Christensen: The Bluest Sky

He knew the rotting nature of poverty and the dull, disintegrating poison of lost hope. He had some of the dark anger of Walt Whitman, who could charm a winter tree back into bloom with his dreams and turn on his heels and find despair tearing at the entrails of the ordinary man.

January 21, 2021 · 3 Comments

Tom Weis: History Will Damn Trump & Co. for Betraying the Vision of Our Founders

Healing begins with putting Trump’s exhausting psychodrama behind us and getting back to loving and caring for one another as Americans.

October 19, 2020 · Leave a comment

Heather Cox Richardson: A National Disgrace

The first presidential debate of 2020 was unlike anything we have seen before. CNN’s Jake Tapper said: “That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.” … Continue reading

September 30, 2020 · 7 Comments

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